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Terence Conran who has sold more chairs at retail in England than perhaps any one in history could have any chairs he wants in his office. He specifies Eames chairs.

Metropolitan Home, December 2005/January 2006 issue, heralds England’s leading purveyor of design, TERENCE CONRAN, at his country estate, BARTON COURT.

It is a “throwback to old English landed estates: its a completely self-contained village.”

But there’s nothing “old English” about its owner, or his taste in furniture.

Terence Conran who has sold more chairs at retail in England than perhaps any one in history could have any chairs he wants in his office. His choices? Behind his desk, an Eames Soft Pad Aluminum Group Executive chair; for his guests, in front of his desk, an Eames Aluminum Group chair, both in black leather.

Conran’s examples are made by Vitra, the long-standing partner of the Eames Office for Europe and other international sales.
Judge a chair design by the company it keeps? Here are some highlights from the Wikipedia biography of TERENCE CONRAN:

Conran started his own design practice in 1956 with the Summa furniture range and designing a shop for Mary Quant. In 1964 he opened the first Habitat shop in Chelsea with his third wife Caroline Herbert, which grew into a large chain selling household goods and furniture in contemporary designs. In the mid-1980s, Conran expanded Habitat into the Storehouse group of companies that included Mothercare and Heals but in 1990 he lost control of the company. His later retail companies include the Conran Shop and FSC-certified wood furniture maker Benchmark Furniture, which he co-founded in 1983.